Dependency management, why it's so difficult ?
Anybody could explain me why do you use maven. As I understand the main purpose of maven is a support of dependencies between modules/components in... more »
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The Maven Integration for Eclipse 0.9.5 is released
This release includes number of bug fixes and the most notable new feature is the form-based editor for the Maven pom.xml.
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Introduction to m2eclipse
The Eclipse IDE is the most widely used IDE for Java development today. At the same time, Apache Maven continues to mature, and has grown to be the... more »
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Maven is NOT going away
A recent blog post posited "Is Maven going away?". Almost certainly the title is FUD trolling for visitors as the main issue posed is easily solved by... more »
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Is Maven going away?
First, let me say, I like Maven - a lot. I’ve liked the idea, if not the execution, since 1.0 (yes, I know there is some serious bad blood for the... more »
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13 reasons why Ruby, Python and the gang will push Java to die… of old age
Lately I seem to find everywhere lots of articles about the imminent dismissal of Java and its replacement with the scripting language of the day or... more »
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A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!
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Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb... more »
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Dependency Hell reaching new heights?
The problem with Maven ... and the opportunity with OSGi
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Why are you still not using Hudson?
This week Hudson was awarded the Duke’s Choice Award in the Developer Solutions category at JavaOne. In the space of a couple of years, Hudson has... more »
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Netbeans Maven Intragation 3.1 Released !
Netbeans Maven Intragation 3.1 Released !
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Gradle - A Groovy Build Tool
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Gradle is a build system which provides: A very flexible general purpose build tool like Ant, Switchable, build-by-convention frameworks a la Maven... more »
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The GNU Open-Source License, Ext JS and IGNORAMUSES
All this talk surrounding Ext JS is quite disturbing! No one seems to understand the GNU open-source license. The GNU OSS license is well suited for... more »
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Migrating to Maven 2 (Part 1)
Ever wanted to move your build to Maven 2, but not completely re-arrange your codebase? In this 3 part series, we’ll do just that with the Google... more »
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Nexus - Maven Proxy Server
Although Sonatype Nexus maven proxy server still in the beta stage it is polished enough to go head to head against the much more popular proxy... more »
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Time to Fork Ext JS and MyGWT
bloid via abotar.com
Bad news but not really unexpected for me, Ext JS and MyGWT (a.k.a. Ext GWT) have just changed from LGPL to GPL today. In a nutshell, Ext JS and MyGWT... more »
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Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Epilogue)
Thanks to Brian E. Fox, I managed to avoid duplication of Flex remoting configuration files in this project. It requires a bit of additional... more »
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SCRUM open source tool released
A promising new SCRUM based project management tool. It is worth to watch.
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The Maven Integration for Eclipse 0.9.2 is released
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m2eclipse team is glad to announce 0.9.2 release. This release includes several fixes for issues found in previous versions as well as additional... more »
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Maven Unexpected: An Abundance of Flex Mojos
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Despite some fashionable buzz to the contrary, Maven has gained momentum in the market. It has done so by consistently meeting criticism with... more »
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Nexus - my next Maven repository manager
"The lads at Sonatype have just released a new Maven Repository Manager, called Nexus." At first glance it looks very good.
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Annoucement: Maven 2.0.9 Released
mostlyharmless via maven.apache.org
The Apache Maven team would like to announce the release of Maven 2.0.9. See the release notes.
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We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here
Whenever the regular expression topic comes up, I unashamedly recommend the best tool on the market for parsing and building regular expressions --... more »
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Making a good use of Maven metadata
One of the great things about Maven is that it provides a well defined project metadata. This include obvious things like project description,... more »
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Indexing Maven repositories
This is descriptive post about how you can index your own Maven repositories and access them from Eclipse using m2eclipse.
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Don Brown: Fixing Maven 2
Don Brown is employeed at Atlassian (vendor of JIRA and Confluence) and part of Apache open-source community. He recently submitted patches for Maven... more »
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